The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for creating and editing digital photos and videos, as well as how to make your own still and video cameras.
Here’s an interesting kit for a PIR sensor controlled camera. Though with only a 640×480 CMOS view, you may want a higher resolution to identify stealthy intruders – When the sensor detects movement in a room it will take a burst of 10 photos with the digital camera. Each photo is taken at 0.5sec interval. […]
Chris McDonald made this extra-great, 2-axis drawing machine for doing time-lapse photography.
Udi sent in this article about creating a camera lens support bracket. It can be modified for any camera/lens setup. This is a very inexpensive solution, and is a really easy build. – Link
From the MAKE Flickr pool Flickr user Dippold made a tiny pinhole camera, Pinholo! – Obtained in a Pine Nut, plays on the assonance between the English term pinhole and that Italian “pinolo” (pine nut). creates microphotographies. – Link Related: Homemade matchbox pinhole camera – Link From the pages of MAKE: Panoramic Pinhole Camera MAKE […]
(He’s either trying to steal your glasses, or cast ‘telekinetic sphere’ – can’t tell.) If you can get your hands on 2 same-model DSLR cameras, consider the following: Anonymous writes, This site suggests a way to do stereo photography with two digital SLR cameras, a home-made rig, a remote to sync them together and suggests […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool The pool saw quite a diverse batch of work come through this week. It’s very cool to see more of the original makers commenting with help and clarification. Thanks for the caring & sharing! (We’ll announce contest winners soon – too much awesomeness to rush!) DIY doorbell(s) [above, top-left] – […]
The Canadian TV series, Les Pieds dans la Marge, had a successful adventure in high altitude ballooning, rising to a lofty 92,303 feet above the earth. That’s well into the near-space atmospheric region – their cameras captured some really amazing photos! Check out the Hi-res photo gallery – Link Watch the full episode (174mb divx […]
